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298: Building a prompt engineering playground for faster company-wide innovation (with LinkedIn's Lukasz Karolewski and Ajay Prakash)

March 04, 2025 0:19:01 13.8 MB Downloads: 0

In this episode, Jenna Barron interviews Lukasz Karolewski, senior staff software engineer at LinkedIn, and Ajay Prakash, staff software engineer at LinkedIn, to talk about how they built a prompt engineering playground at LinkedIn to improve cross-team collaboration with non-technical teams.

They discuss:

  • Why they built the playground
  • The choice to use Jupyter notebooks
  • The work they did to make sure it was accessible to non-technical users
  • How it's facilitated faster innovation at the company

They detailed their work in this blog post here: https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/product-design/building-collaborative-prompt-engineering-playgrounds-using-jupyter-notebook